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Clarke House Tours
The Clarke House, built in 1912 and located in Clarke House Park, 1039 Kingsley Avenue, is open for tours the second Sunday of each month from 2 PM to 4 PM. Sunday afternoons are the perfect time for a leisurely tour of the house, both upstairs and downstairs.
Orange Park Memories
As we reach our last month of posting articles from Orange Park’s hometown newspaper, The Breeze, we wanted to remind everyone that Orange Park was once the home of the most advanced primate research center in the world, the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology. Emory University bought the laboratory and moved it to Atlanta in 1965, where the work continues to this day. The article below ran December 30, 1971, and describes a local couple that was employed by Yerkes and made the move with it to Atlanta.
The Society wants to thank the Hull family for their generous gift of original Breeze newspapers.
Holiday Happenings
Hometown Holiday
Join us for the 12th annual Hometown Holiday at Clarke House Park on Friday, December 6 and Saturday, December 7. The event will run from 5 PM to 9 PM each evening. This is always a great family event with something for everyone and every age.
The Clarke House will be decorated for the holidays and open to visitors. Members of the Society will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about the Clarke family and our town’s history.
Other activities will include live musical entertainment, food vendors, pictures with Santa, a Christmas village where you can shop for unique gifts, holiday movies on a large, outdoor screen and trail rides through the trees on a trail decorated with holiday lights.
This old-fashioned holiday celebration is a great way for your family to start the Christmas season!
Parking is available across the street from Clarke House Park at the First Baptist Church of Orange Park. Orange Park Police Officers will be on-site to help everyone safely cross Kingsley Ave. Limited handicap parking is available within the park.
We will again be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to those in need this holiday season. Food items will be collected at the Clarke House. All donations will be delivered to the Clothes Closet for distribution in the Orange Park area.
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